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This is revealed in a new study from Uppsala University, conducted in collaboration with infectious diseases doctors in Kristianstad and published in the scientific journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

"We were surprised that such high proportion of the relatively few voles that we caught were actually carrying a hantavirus that makes people ill. And this was in an area more than 500 km south of the previously known range of the virus," says Elin Economou Lundeberg, infectious diseases doctor at Kristianstad Central Hospital, who is one of the study's first authors.

In January, a friend he had met online was arrested following a similar attack in nearby Kristianstad in which a pupil and a teacher were injured.

On Monday evening, there were also reports of shootings in the same area in Kristianstad, the Swedish news agency TT reported.

This is Julia Ragnarsson, Herring’s partner of three years and the reason he is showing me around a tiny bucolic village, 20 minutes outside the town of Kristianstad.